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Month: December 2012

Happy New Year from the RoomCritic team.

We’re looking forward to bringing you more photos and information on your favorite hotels by the people who’ve been there before.

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RoomCritic Hotel Photo Feature | W Retreat and Spa, Bali

RoomCritic is ready for the new year with a new feature hotel – the W Retreat & Spa Bali. Our last hotel photo-of-the-week was from this beautiful hotel taken by @littlechidee, one of our RoomCritic followers on Instagram.

The Instagram hotel profile and hotel photo tag list | December 2012

Following on from last months Instagram hotel profiles and photo tag list, the RoomCritic team have collated 5 more hotels to explore along with the photos taken by real people who have stayed at or visited the hotel.

Below is December’s 5 Instagram hotels (Hotel Americano, W Retreat and Spa Bali, Sofitel Guangzhou, Kempinski Hotel Palm Jumeirah and Hotel Paradis) with a link to their feed and a list of photo tags to look up to show you the pictures people are taking at the hotel.

RoomCritic Hotel Photo of the Week | W Retreat and Spa Bali

Instagram photo by @littlechidee

We know, another stunning sunset photo. At RoomCritic, this is exactly the kind of resort photo we love. So we’ve made this beautiful capture of a Balinese sunset by one of our regular #roomcritic gallery contributors @littlechidee, this weeks #roomcritic Instagram ‘hotel photo of the week’ on RoomCritic.com.

Hotel hallway photos that are nothing like the original Overlook Hotel from The Shining

Instagram photo by @lax2nrt

Hotel hallways and the photos people take have come a long way since Stanley Kubrick’s original horror hallway scene in the classic Jack Nicholson film The Shining. RoomCritic has found 10 stunning hotel hallway photos (or the modern day equivalent) from the RoomCritic photo archives and the #roomcritic Instagram tag gallery that are anything but scary.

Watch the erection of sign porn heaven at The Wythe Hotel Brooklyn

Photo from ecofriend.com

At RoomCritic we love hotel photos, hotel sign porn and terrible puns laden with sexual innuendo. So, we thought it was only fitting to show you the best in modern sign porn at The Wythe Hotel Brooklyn be erected before your very eyes. But rather than just make you scroll through the pictures we decided to forever immortalise the beautiful moment in true inter web animated styles as a looping gif.

A reflection of self at 11 Mirrors Hotel – Kiev, Ukraine

One mirror by itself is just a shiny surface. But bring many mirrors together and the result is a multifaceted, seemingly infinite series of reflections that change every time you look. 11 Mirrors, the first member of Design Hotels™ in the Ukraine, is celebrating its grand opening this month. This elegant sanctuary is a reflection of contemporary Kiev: sophisticated and simple, with no need for heavy embellishments.